Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such rituals and procedures are designed to restore them to their proper place within the people of God and within the inner circle of his blessing . |
| 2 | We have chosen your shorts , I now propose to instruct you in their origin and past life . |
| 3 | From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address . |
| 4 | Second , to better understand such ideas as ‘ press freedom ’ , one needs to relate them to their original context . |
| 5 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 6 | Any proper examination of those models would need to set them in their philosophical and social contexts . |
| 7 | The charity is still in force today , but is used for grants for students and apprentices for books and any equipment they may need to help them in their careers . |
| 8 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 9 | That 's why they want to reassure them of their treatment at the Police station . |
| 10 | They want to bend me to their will like a factory machine , so they can scrap me when I wear out . |
| 11 | God sent two angels to check out the city and the men of Sodom tried to kidnap them from their host , Lot , in order to have homosexual relations with them . |
| 12 | ‘ I have ruled the armies of the Kha-Khan , and kings have come to petition me on their knees . ’ |
| 13 | The Open College of Arts tried to interest us in their ‘ creative Writing ’ course by sending us a magazine compiled from the students work . |
| 14 | It is often the sudden availability of time that allows women to develop their talents at last — and then find that other people want to pay them for their work ! |
| 15 | In many such cases earners of the foreign currency might be expected to exchange it for their own . |
| 16 | By now the cameras were filming the fists , and the bodies struggling in the grip of those blond , uniformed young men who tried to drag them from their seats . |
| 17 | ‘ These others , they want to cut you with their knives and throw you in the river . |
| 18 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 19 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 20 | Given very wide regional and local variations in deposition , questions must be raised about the effectiveness of such a small network ; local authorities will need to supplement it with their own networks . |
| 21 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 22 | First important question : how many of the young people contrive to alert us to their cultural soundness by working ‘ motherf—er ’ into their interpretations ? |
| 23 | When children have been removed , positive efforts should be made to rehabilitate them with their parents as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Erm Jim asked me if we could pay up er as soon as the job had been done to help them with their cash flow situation district council . |
| 25 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 26 | Now they are much more relaxed and hope to turn it to their advantage while still denying involvement . ’ |
| 27 | As the novel progresses , the central consciousness is increasingly alienated from the institutions which seek to maintain him under their control , and his own discourse becomes more and more transgressive . |
| 28 | Dealers can choose to print them in their catalogues , display them , or print them on their invoices . |
| 29 | Most of those who were freaks seemed to declare it by their handwriting , and these she ignored . |
| 30 | A college … should provide a school … and the subscribers , becoming Governors of the new institution , should proceed to choose a President , Vice-Presidents , Treasurer , Secretary , and such other officers as should appear convenient … to institute their Veterinary Professor … that His Majesty , and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , be humbly prayed to take it under their joint patronage : and , the Master of the Horse , the President of the Royal Society , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , and the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufacturers and Commerce , should be each invited to a government of the college … |